Public Works Staff Report - July/August 2021

Published on:

September 10, 2021

Roads Division

For the month of July: the Roads Division concluded the major repairs of the delaminated areas of Deertrail Dr. and was able to begin improving the San Juan Dr. area as well as repairing utility cuts from water leak repairs. The Roads crew distributed 34.5 tons of asphalt. Significant effort was also undertaken in repairing larger pothole areas around the valley this month. Locations of notable repairs are:

Utility Cuts:

Tiara Ct
El Rancho
Stirrup Way
Wilderness Way
Frontier Way
Sorrel Ct
29720 N. Lower Valley Rd
29361 N. Lower Valley Rd

Delamination and Dig Out repairs:

Deertrail @ Surrey
Paramount Dr
23200 San Juan Dr
24180 San Juan Dr
Domino Hill

The Roads Division received their new Wacker Neuson steel drum roller compactor, which will drastically improve the quality of the asphalt patches going forward.

Right-of-Way mowing is still ongoing with our John Deere flail tractor. We have progressed up the arterial road sin the upper areas, the month of August we will be continuing on to the side streets to clear weeds along the roads as well as making additional passes along the lower arterial roads that have sprouted new weeds this summer. Productivity in Right-of-way mowing on Deertrail Dr. has started to increase dramatically with our boom mower being repaired. We will have an employee working to clear the roadside weeds while it is safe to do so.

For the month of August: the Roads Division focused our efforts on repairing water break utility cuts, repairing delaminated areas on Deertrail Dr. and Starland Dr. and repairing parts of San Juan that have settled over the years and caused poor ride quality.

31 tons of asphalt was used in August to repair utility cuts and delamination’s at:

23961 San Juan
Deertrail @ Tank 02
22550 Shenandoah
29981 Rolling Oak
30120 Rolling Oak
29351 Skyline
26000 Deertrail
25211 Paramount
24951 Paramount
26740 Frontier
29650 Starland
27261 Deertrail

Water Division

In the month of July there were 19 leak repairs:

22601 Buttercup
23981 corral springs
Booster 3c service
28061 Deertrail
Deertrail above Tank 2C
25231 Bear Valley Rd
Bottom of Jacaranda near 24000
San Juan near Horse Trail by Martingale
28201 Bear Valley Rd
30200 Tuttle
29351 Skyline
Rolling Oak Blow Off
29720 N Lower Valley Rd
23640 Lakeview
29361 N Lower Valley
22550 Shenandoah
24861 Diamond Ct
30580 Rolling Oak

In the month of August there were 13 leak repairs:

29981 Rolling Oak
30121 Rolling Oak
Tank 8A2
30600 Fox ridge
29570 Fawn Way
26780 Frontier
29780 Butterfield
26551 Cumberland (2)
Oakflat East of Brian
26051 Oakflat
26700 Deertrail
26600 Stirrup

Water division staff have been busy with final touches on generators, booster maintenance and SCADA issues. Some highlights: Well 31 and 32 are both completed and are actively being flushed to Four Island Lake. Well 10 rehabilitation contract was awarded to Pacific Irrigation and the Well has been pulled.

Will Parks and Dawn Smith attended the Tehachapi Water Regional Group (TWRG) meeting at Tehachapi Cummings County Water District Office on August 11. The group consists of Bear Valley, City of Tehachapi, Golden Hills, Stallion Springs, and CCI. The meeting was primarily about Water Conservation Public Relations. It was discussed to start a regional conservation campaign. This entails new banners and magnets with the new “Save Our Water” icon and all agencies being represented in a united front on the banners. To date there are no mandatory water use restrictions. Until there are statewide restrictions other agencies are not enticed to enforce any regulations to restrict their customer’s water usage. However, local agencies have created new door hangers and do put them on properties with excessive water usage or broken irrigation to help the public under stand that we do need to try and conserve our resources. The next meeting is set for September 8. There are some proposed drought infrastructure funds coming available in the fall that the TWRG is hoping to have new information on in the next meeting.

Wastewater Division

Preventative maintenance and general plant up-keep and standard operations continue. USA’s were completed as needed. We are sending water to Golf Course and continuing with our weed abatement at the facility. Began working on sludge valve replacement. Completed inspections and repairs to hydro-jetter. Contact chamber was cleaned and replaced sampler tubing on composite machines.

General Services Division

Fleet

July - The fleet maintenance shop is busy with repairs and services.

(5) #2 Services
(3) #1 Service
(4) Repairs On Equipment some are long term some were in and out in a day
(10) Repairs On Cars, Trucks
(1) Break downs in the field
(0) Smog’s

August - The fleet maintenance shop is busy with repairs and services

(4) #2 Services
(1) #1 Service
(2) Repairs
On Equipment some are long term some were in and out in a day
(14) Repairs On Cars, Trucks
(0) Break downs in the field
(0) Smog’s

Faclities

July Maintenance Record:

(6) Repairs to facilities in the district
(10) Repairs to other stands and boxes in valley
(13) Generators Inspected
(0) Generator brake down
(1) Calls to repair visitor gate arm
(1) Calls to repair RFID gate arm
Correcting some small compliance issues
Compliance corrections are complete at Main gate

August Maintenance Record:

(5) Repairs to facilities in the district
(9) Repairs to other stands and boxes in valley
(13) Generators Inspected
(0) Generator brake down
(0) Calls to repair visitor gate arm
(0) Calls to repair RFID gate arm
Correcting some small compliance issues
Compliance corrections are complete at Admin

Transfer Station

July Records

Waste management Hauled

48 household trash roll offs
42 Green waste roll offs
25 Manure
24 Recycling rolloffs

Waste Management still does not have variance for hauling treated wood. We are cleaning up all areas around the transfer site. Green waste and manure areas are back to empty for the moment.

August Records